singly
IPA: sˈɪŋgɫi
adverb
- In a single or unaccompanied manner; without a companion.
- Individually; particularly; severally.
- Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed.
- Honestly; sincerely; simply.
- (obsolete) Singularly; peculiarly.
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Examples of "singly" in Sentences
- The stamps are available singly.
- The margins are singly to doubly toothed.
- The meerkats live in groups instead of singly.
- Eggs are laid singly on the underside of leaves.
- Flowers appear singly or in pairs in the leaf axils.
- The Lord sat in the Outer House, and usually singly.
- The pale yellow eggs are laid singly on the host plants.
- The egg is yellowish, laid singly on the leaves of host plants.
- Eggs are laid singly on the host plants and hatch in the spring.
- The female lays eggs singly on buds or the upper side of leaves.
- But most instances of bias are defensible when taken singly, which is my point.
- Of the three it may be a question which is most entitled singly to represent it.
- "Happy citizen," the stone reads, "when called singly to be a barrier to the liberties of a continent!"
- They had been whites, all of them, these poor murdered people, and they had been slain singly, in pairs, and in parties.
- No one anywhere near except a sick sailor and one she would almost rather die than call singly to her aid, for he had once told her he loved her.
- In Il deserto rosso (Red Desert), characters emerge singly from the ghostly fog as they watch Giuliana walk away from the car that she has almost driven off a pier.
- [_If 'irrational' here means simply 'non-rational,' or non-deducible from the essence of either term singly, it is no reproach; if it means 'contradicting' such essence, Mr. Bradley should show wherein and how_.]
- For God has absolute and paramount lordship over the creature wholly and singly, which is entirely subject to His power: whereas man partakes of a certain likeness to the divine lordship, forasmuch as he exercises a particular power over some man or creature.
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